@the_etrain

"broad acceptance" is because people like to get high. There's no mystery there. What's mysterious is how the only drugs permitted (alcohol, nicotine) are deleterious, and innocent things like marijuana took so long to break through. They're only now slowly permitting psychedelics (and just mushrooms: always the worst crap first.)

Portugal legalized Everything, and they're just fine. Frankly, I'd like to be able to get Cocaine or MDMA (or Mescaline, yummy) at the DRUG STORE, don't know about you.

@azcoigreach

Oh, you did share the code, "kewl".

@azcoigreach

What HAS it done?

What is DCA? All I can find is this:

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Dollar cost averaging, an investment strategy
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I don't know all those terms, "slop loss".

I would be willing to run a passive observer system to model "how it might do", but the question remains what minimum cash level I'd need to actually /engage/.

If your "method" "beats the house" at all, then cool, it works. YOUR problem is not having enough capital to cash the crap out of a trade, but you just keep funneling gains into your cash pool and sooner or later it can take off. Since it's not exponential, "later" might be "way later than you would be willing to wait for."

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Skippy, okay. Not Spot and not Bruno. Well hey, whatever. {laughs}

@azcoigreach

{laughs and laughs}

Hmm, so you're waiting for the day the bot says

"I had to bail, boss; the whole place was turning to shit. Here's your $0.25 net earnings for last month, and I'm outta here."

If you ACTUALLY sustainably make gains, what are you doing?

I had actually downloaded the entire BTC history, but decided that I with my shitty CPUs (like benchmarked 500 against processors doing 20000) would have a lottery ticket's chance in hell, and gave up. Then the reports about using more electricity than Finland came out ...

@azcoigreach

I ignore "crypto", currencies anyway. After seeing (1) it is after all who has the most money who can make the most money (2) it's not ecologically sustainable (3) cryptocurrency exchanges raided by governments, I put all that in my "this does not exist in my world" bin. I consider it a fad.

If you've been able to make headway against all that, great. But I presume you watch for signs to exit ("get the hell out fast") like everyone does.

@juliew2010 @Inge @redrummy

{forgive me ...} Yes, smelts ARE delicious.